Julie L. Myers, the head of Immigration Custom Enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security said that the number of eligible immigrants for deportation in the United States is predicted to vary from 300,000 to 455,000, or ten percent of the overall prison population according to a NY Times articles published on March 28, 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/washington/28immig.html).
A new plan was submitted to House of Appropriation Subcommittee for the coordination and linking of databases between local, county, state, and federal jails with the F.B.I. fingerprint databases to facilitate faster deportation of immigrants that commit serious deportable crimes.
According to Myers, jailed illegal immigrants cost $95 a day to house in prisons before deportation. An accelerated deportation program she said "reduces the amount of time aliens are in our custody," she says. "It reduces the amount of time our lawyers have to spend prosecuting cases in immigration court." In 2007, 164,000 immigrant criminals were placed into deportation proceedings, and 95,000 immigrants with criminal histories were deported, Myers says.
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